{"product_id":"smallfield-edward-to-whom-it-may-concern","title":"Smallfield, Edward: To Whom It May Concern","description":"\u003cp\u003eApogee Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: December 1, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Published: Ed Smallfield's TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN enters into the unfixity of time and experience. In this elusive realm, Smallfield unerringly finds the 'curve of binding energy' in which a protagonist who is an 'unself' emerges. Throughout Smallfield's lyric meditation, eros and erasure alternately fuse and efface until erasure becomes manifestation. Perhaps recollection creates sense of time's exile; Smallfield adeptly, bravely turns this inside out with 'a celebration that we own nothing.' His creative genius is to demonstrate the fullness of absence, whereby the poet can 'make a thing \/ by making \/ nothing.'â Elizabeth Robinson\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo read TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN is to learn to listen to the world all over again. Whether focused outwardâ sludge, \/\/ soot slush, \/ slide tiresâ or inwardâ ... something about 'the music' in it...â or on familiar textsâ the green \/ 'of wrist-thick'â Ed Smallfield's exquisitely attuned language cultivates space for a greened attention, palpable and breathing. Here, silence and space also are fully alive, ... a sentence without words.... In his final, eponymous, section, Smallfield's profound attention to both presence and absence allows us to hear what beats just beneath the text of John Cage's Silence, a revelatory listening, in order to free \/ in it a space, an emptiness, \/\/ suddenly singing.â Laura Walker\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40903592280087,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/content_8e6c1955-7595-49ee-ab31-6225f3a7cb2d.jpg?v=1707431117","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/smallfield-edward-to-whom-it-may-concern","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}